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“Susan has so many great ideas and is a phenomenal teacher of mindfulness, lightness, and play! This reinvigorated a bit of “sparkle” and lightness in my life and I look forward to the next one.” ~ Erin O.

This class is perfect for you if:

You've always been curious about painting and creativity, but have not yet taken a class.

You painted years ago and became frozen or discouraged. You stopped painting and would like to start creating again.

You've been craving a creative past time that you can deeply engage with.

You’re working through issues like an eating disorder, recovering from illness, moving through grief.

This I know for sure—Art provides a big, beautiful space in which to heal.

I’m here to give you permission to say YES to you!

Say YES to your curiosity and interest, by setting up a time to meet and play.

We're going to turn off your thinking mind, and just—jump in, make a mess, play, and discover!

Painting, making art, is a meditation, a daily practice of showing up, challenging doubt and fear, and learning to trust yourself. Art is a Healing.

As you continue to show up and play with paint, you will receive all the same benefits you receive from yoga or meditation or walking.

You will feel healthier, happier, more grounded and present.

You will notice that the more you create, the more you are healing, mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually.

Painting will become your haven, a space that you can go to any time, to reconnect to yourself, the moment, and to joyous creative energy.

Painting Makes Me BraveSMIntuitive, Abstract Painting Classes

Let’s spend some time playing together, experimenting, making a mess, and breaking through your rules and fears. No experience necessary!

2-hr. Individual, Intuitive Painting Classes

in Northampton, MA. $140 + $25 for materials.

Duet classes: 3hrs each

Bring your friends or family for an afternoon of connecting, celebrating a special occasion, making beautiful memories.

Work with a limited number of paint colors so that you don’t feel overwhelmed.

Become more confident at making choices/decisions and also at letting go.

Listen to your intuition, experiment & take risks, ignore the critic, keep going. Follow your Heart. This is how painting makes you Brave!

Use creativity as a path for mindfulness, self-care, play and healing.

Jump in, make a mess, play, and discover!

Create paintings that surprise you and make you smile!

“I had the wonderful opportunity to have Susan lead me through an abstract art lesson via FaceTime.It was so great! I was a bit apprehensive at first, as I have not painted this way before,yet Susan quickly calmed my nerves with her kind, supportive attitude.She led me through the process step-by-step, encouraging my progress along the way!Her calm, playful approach made it very fun! It was a pleasure creating art with Susan,and I look forward to doing it again.” ~ Celeste

It’s always good to know a little bit about your potential mentor,so here are some highlights about me:

I’m an Intuitive, Abstract Painter. I teach individuals and groups how Be Brave and Paint!

I love playfulness, experimentation and surprises.

I paint on wood, canvas and paper, using acrylic paints and mediums, inks, pencil, graphite, paper and fabric.

Multiple layers allow for change, transformation, as I build up chapters of narrative.

Each painting is a journey, an intimate conversation; moments of action, moments of reflection.

Native New Yorker, I've lived happily on both coasts and several states in between.

"Susan! I just had a beautiful connection to the way of it with this process! The paintings are layer upon layer upon layer and there's this process that you go through and you don't know how it's going to turn out but you just do the thing that shows up, the next whatever it is and sometimes it's heinously ugly and sometimes it's absolutely beautiful and yet, not the finished product.

But the takeaway! The real takeaway, the real oh my goddess takeaway, is that once it's finished and you're ready to move on, it feels intensely satisfying to look at the painting. It is not necessary to dig underneath to see how all the layers got you to the place of this. This visceral Satisfied. It is enough that the layers contributed to the final rendition of the creation.

It also doesn’t matter one bit whether any other set of eyes on it find it as exhilarating and joyful to look at as I do. It is enough that my own heart leaps when I see it." ~ Deborah